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    Aroosa Kanwal is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan. She received her PhD from Lancaster University in the UK. Her research focuses on representations of Muslims and Islam in post-9/11 literature and issues of identity, migration, and borders in contemporary Pakistani fiction. She has published two books and several journal articles on these topics.

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    Aroosa Kanwal is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan. She received her PhD from Lancaster University in the UK. Her research focuses on representations of Muslims and Islam in post-9/11 literature and issues of identity, migration, and borders in contemporary Pakistani fiction. She has published two books and several journal articles on these topics.

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    AROOSA KANWAL

    Postdoctoral Researcher,
    Lancaster University, UK
    (2018-2020)

    Assistant Professor
    Department of English, FLL
    Co-editor, Journal of Contemporary Poetics, IIUI
    HEC approved Supervisor

    Work Address:
    International Islamic University.
    Sector H-10. Islamabad. Pakistan
    Email: [email protected]

    PROFILE

    Aroosa Kanwal is Assistant Professor in English Literature at International Islamic


    University, Islamabad, Pakistan. She received her PhD from Lancaster University,
    UK. She completed her MA and MPhil at the International Islamic University,
    Islamabad. Her first monograph Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani
    Fiction: Beyond 9/11 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015) received the KLF-Coca-Cola
    award for the best non-fiction book of the year 2015 written in English by the writer
    of Pakistani origin in 2016. Aroosa’s second book The Routledge Companion to
    Pakistani Anglophone Writing (UK: Routledge, 2018) (co-editor Saiyma Aslam) is
    the first companion to Pakistani anglophone literature. She teaches Global Muslim
    Narratives, Modern Drama, Postcolonial literatures, Pakistani Literature in English
    and Contemporary Short Fiction. Aroosa’s research and teaching interests focus on
    post-9/11 constructions of Muslims and Islam in relation to Islamophobic discourse,
    politics of representation, and questions of migration, borders, identity and resistance
    in contemporary Pakistani Anglophone fiction and Muslim writing. Her chapters on
    these connections can be found in Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert,
    Eds., Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora (Routledge, 2014) and
    Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, ed., Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts (UK:
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012).

    AWARDS AND HONOURS

    ➢ Winner, UK Alumni Professional Achievement Award, 2018.


    ➢ Winner of the Coca Cola- KLF award for the best non-fiction book of the year 2015
    ➢ Recipient of HEC Doctoral Award
    ➢ Recipient of Departmental/Faculty Bursary, Lancaster University.
    EDUCATIONAL PROFILE

    PhD in English Lancaster University, UK. (2013)


    MPhil English International Islamic University, Islamabad (2008)
    MA English International Islamic University, Pakistan. (1999)
    BSc Punjab University. Pakistan. (1995)

    EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

    Lancaster University, UK:


    Associate Lecturer in Part 1 English 100: 2009-2011
    Introduction to English Literature
    Department of English & Creative Writing.

    International Islamic University Islamabad:

    Assistant Professor, Department of English, IIUI 2016- present


    Assistant Professor (Adhoc), Deptt. Of English
    FLL and H, IIUI 2014-2016
    Lecturer, Deptt. of English, FLL & H 1999- 2014
    Member, Board of Studies, IIUI 2014- present
    Member, Research Committee 2014- present
    Coordinator, BS/MA English 2014- present
    Convener, Financial Assistance Committee 2014- present
    Member, Comprehensive Examination Committee 2014- present
    Incharge, Examination Committee 2014- present
    Incharge, Registration Committee 2014- present
    Member, Course Exemption Committee 2014- present
    In charge, Registration and Examination 2000- 2009
    Chairperson, Social Committee 2001-2004
    Organizer, Sports Competition 2002.

    PUBLICATIONS

    Books

    The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing ed. by Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma
    Aslam. UK: Routledge, 2018.

    (Monograph)
    Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11. Basingstoke: Palgrave
    Macmillan, 2015. (won Coca Cola –KLF award for best non-fiction book of the year 2015).

    Reviewed in
    “Dangerous Controversies,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, June 17, 2015 (by Bruce King),
    Wasafiri, August 19, 2016 (by Madeline Clements): 84-85; Journal of Commonwealth
    Literature, 51: 4 (November 22, 2016): 644-659 (by Muneeza Shamsie).; Journal of
    Postcolonial Writing, March 31, 2016 (by Bruce King), “Locating Pakistan, Islam, and the
    West in Anglophone Pakistani Fiction,” SCTIW Review, November 17, 2015 (by
    Muhammad Sheeraz), Pakistan Observer, November 16, 2015 (by Atoofa Najeeb),
    “Pakistani-English Writing” Oxford Research Encyclopedias, May 2017 (by Muneeza
    Shamsie).

    Book Chapters

    “Brand Pakistan: The Case of Pakistani Anglophone Literary Canon” in Routledge Companion to
    Pakistani Anglophone Literature ed. by Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam. UK: Routledge,
    2018.

    “After 9/11: Islamophobia in Kamila Shamsie’s Broken Verses and Burnt Shadows” in
    Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion,
    Representations ed. by Claire Chambers and Caroline Herbert. UK: Routledge, 2014.

    “After 9/11: Trauma, Memory, Melancholia and National Consciousness” in Consciousness,


    Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2011 ed. by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe. UK: Cambridge Scholars
    Publishing, 2012.

    Journal Publications

    “Apology or no Apology: Indigenous Models of Subjection and Emancipation in Pakistani


    Anglophone Fiction” Journal of International Women’s Studies 19:6 (2018) 118-131.
    Bridgewater State University, USA. (ISSN 1539-8706)

    “After 9/11: Trauma, Memory, Melancholia and National Consciousness.” Consciousness,


    Literature and the Arts 13:2 (2012) unpag (ISSN 1470-5648)

    “Being-in-the-World: A Gestaltist View of Beckett’s Dramatic Theory.” Kashmir Journal of


    Language Research 19:2 (2016): 121-130 (ISSN-1028-6640)

    “Quantising the Audience Role: Experimental Drama of Beckett and Brecht.” Kashmir
    Journal of Language Research 21:2 (2018): 15-26 ((ISSN-1028-6640)

    MEMBERSHIPS AND OTHER SERVICES.

    ➢ Co-editor, Journal of Contemporary Poetics, IIUI


    ➢ Member, editorial board The International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature
    (LCWU)
    ➢ Manuscript reviewer of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK)
    ➢ Manuscript reviewer of Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History (The Pennsylvania
    State University, USA)
    ➢ Manuscript reviewer of Sage publications
    ➢ Manuscript reviewer of The International Social Science Journal ISSJ (UNESCO)
    ➢ Member of Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA)
    ➢ Member of British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS)
    ➢ Member, Board of Studies, NUML. Pakistan
    ➢ Member, Board of Studies, Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak
    ➢ Member, Guidance & Evaluation Committee at MS/PhD Linguistics & Literature, AIR
    University, Islamabad.
    CONFERENCE PRESENTATION AND TALKS

    Kanwal, A. Challenges of Glocal Restructuring and the Canon Controversy. “Local Cities,
    Foreign Capitals: Finding the Local Anchor in the Global Cultures” at International Islamic
    University, Islamabad. October 2017.

    Invited speaker at WISH University, Islamabad. ‘Pakistani Anglophone Literature: The Making
    of the Canon.’ April 2017.

    Kanwal, A. (2017) Pakistani Literature in English: The Canon Controversy. Literature Carnival,
    Allama Iqbal Open University. April 2017.

    Invited speaker at Islamabad Literature Festival, 2017 for Muneeza Shamsie’s book Launch,
    Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English, April 2017.

    Kanwal, A. (2016) Self- Orientalization or Revival of Faith: The Politics of Sacred and Religious
    in Aslam’s Fiction. “The New Global City Conference” at University of North Carolina,
    Wilmington. USA. May 2016.

    Invited speaker at Islamabad Literature Festival, 2016 for panel on ‘Pakistani English Literature:
    New Books, New Writers, New Directions.’ April 2016.

    Guest speaker for Book Launch Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond
    9/11 at Islamabad Literature Festival. April 2016.

    Kanwal, A. (2015) Women of Colour and Media: Images and Reality. Third World Women and
    Politics of Feminism Conference at Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan. April 2015.

    Kanwal, A. (2013) Deconstructing New Pakistani Literature: Boom or Bust. British Association
    for South Asian Studies Annual Conference at Leeds University, UK. April 2013.

    Kanwal, A. (2011) After 9/11: Islamophobia in Kamila Shamsie’s Broken Verses and Burnt
    Shadows. British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference at Southampton
    University, UK. April 2011.

    Kanwal, A. (2011) After 9/11: Trauma, Memory, Melancholia and National Consciousness. 4th
    International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts at Lincoln
    University, UK. May 2011.

    Kanwal, A. (2011) Constructing Cyber-identities: Transnational Diaspora Linkages in Kamila


    Shamsie’s Kartography. SOAS conference “Travelling Towards Home: Mobilities and Home
    Making” at London University, UK. June 2011.

    Kanwal, A. (2007) Teaching Integrated Language Skills through Poetry. 23 rd International ELT
    Conference of SPELT at Fatima Jinnah University, Pakistan. 2007.

    Seminar Talk at Lancaster University, UK on ‘Lost Home or Regained Paradise: The Diasporic
    Vision of Homeland in Kamila Shamsie’s Novels’. June 2010.

    Seminar Talk at International Islamic University, Islamabad on ‘Pakistani Literature in English’.


    April 2014.

    Invited speaker at WISH University, Islamabad. ‘Imagining Muslims: Islam and Muslim
    Identities in Hanif Kureishi’s My Son the Fanatic.’ March 2014.
    RESEARCH INTERESTS

    Post-9/11 constructions of Muslims and Islam in relation to Islamophobic discourse,


    politics of representation, and questions of migration, borders, identity and resistance
    in contemporary Pakistani Anglophone writings and global Muslim narratives, Arab
    and Meghrebi literature.

    COURSE DESIGN CONTRIBUTION


    ➢ Contemporary Pakistani Literature in English for PhD students IIUI
    ➢ Global Muslim Narratives for PhD students IIUI
    ➢ Postcolonial Theory and Literatures for PhD Students IIUI
    ➢ Pakistani English in Literature for BS Students NUML
    ➢ Pakistani Literature in English for MPhil Students NUML
    ➢ Pakistani Literature in English for MPhil Students Khushal Khan Karak University

    POSTGRADUATE COURSES

    ➢ Global Muslim Narratives (PhD)


    ➢ Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English (PhD)
    ➢ Pakistani Literature in English (MA)
    ➢ South-Asian Literature (PhD)
    ➢ Modern Short Fiction (MS)
    ➢ Postcolonial Theory and Literatures (PhD)
    ➢ Research methodology (PhD)
    ➢ Literary Criticism (MA)
    ➢ Modern Drama (Ibsen – Eliot) (MA)
    ➢ Modern Poetry (Tennyson-Eliot) (MA)
    ➢ Comparative Literatures (MA)
    ➢ Literary Theory (MA)

    SEMINARS & TRAINING COURSES ATTENDED:

    Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) :


    Training course in ELT 2002
    Training course in ELT 2004
    Seminar on “ Teaching Strategies:
    Facing the Challenges of 21st Century.” 2005

    International Islamic University, Islamabad:


    Seminar on “ Teaching Strategies:
    Exploring New Horizons” 2004
    Seminar on “Trends in African Literature” 2005

    Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers (SPELT):


    ELT Conference, Teaching Learning, Learning Teaching 2005

    British Council Pakistan


    Workshop on Material Development in ELT 2007

    RESEARCH SUPERVISION

    PhD Students (thesis in progress)


    Toqeer Ahmed: Precarious Lives, Precarious Geographies: Violence, Necropolitics and Body
    Politics in Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Fiction
    Durr-e-Shahwar: Sufism in Muslim Narratives

    MS Students (thesis in Progress)


    Alia Hamid: Palestinian Utopia and Planetary Humanism: A Critique of Human Rights
    Violation in Mornings in Jenin and Wall of Dust

    Sumaira Aslam: Rethinking Motherhood/Mothering in Punjabi Folk Tales

    Asma: Culture and Self: Reframing Post-Puberty Bacha Posh Identity in the Selected
    Afghan Fiction

    Maryam Mughal Rethinking Peace and Terrorism in Selected Writing of Susan Abulhawa

    MA and MS Students (thesis completed)

    Naz, Farah. A Reassessment of the Atheistic Tenets of Faustus in Historical


    and Philosophical Perspective (2002)

    Naz, Fouzia. Theme of Christian Martyrdom in Murder in the Cathedral


    and Islamic Perspective: A Comparative Study (2003)

    Farihatulaen Rizvi: Re-Imagining Metropolarities In Karachi: Representation of Christian


    Minorities in Bina Shah’s Slum Child and Mohammad Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice
    Bhatti (2018)

    Jabeen Akhtar: Contextualising Neo-orientalist Narratives of Afghan Women in Yasmin


    Khadra’s The Swallows of Kabul and Saira Shah’s The Storyteller’s Daughter
    (2018)
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